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30 points by hellerve | 7 comments
Mark Dominus blog post proposing a better way to track a Git repo's deployment release history than creating thousands of release tags, based on ZipRecruiter experience.
55 points by evakhoury | 13 comments
Blog post by Mark Dominus proposing a better way to record a Git repo's deployment and release history than creating thousands of tag refs.
11 points by surprisetalk | 3 comments
Blog post from The Universe of Discourse explaining how L-system string rewriting, starting from Fibonacci's rabbit problem, models weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages.
338 points by surprisetalk | 153 comments
A personal blog post on The Universe of Discourse describing the seven books the author keeps on the shelf by his elbow and why he loves them.
77 points by lordgrenville | 25 comments
103 points by luu | 17 comments
927 points by JNRowe | 430 comments
Blog post from The Universe of Discourse explaining English patronymic surnames derived from medieval nicknames, some of which are no longer in use.
105 points by lemper | 57 comments
85 points by JNRowe | 56 comments
84 points by ipnon | 98 comments
408 points by pavel_lishin | 389 comments
Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.
171 points by 082349872349872 | 25 comments
31 points by luu | 5 comments
171 points by luu | 96 comments
420 points by kamaraju | 134 comments
Mark Dominus blog post discussing a Math StackExchange calculus exercise integrating e^(x/2 - floor(x/2)) from 0 to 2000 and why it is a good problem.